Golden Zephyr is an attraction at Paradise Gardens Park in

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built by D. H. Morgan Manufacturing. Themed to the

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and Flash Gordon style rocket ships, it takes park guests on a relaxing trip. Unlike its cousins

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and the Astro Orbiter next door in

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, the Golden Zephyr rockets are controlled by centripetal motion over Paradise Bay and can not be automatically controlled to go up and down. The Golden Zephyr's design comes from the

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Circle-Swing rides of the early 20th century, specifically the Aerostat / Strat-O-Stat ride that operated at Riverview Park in

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. In designing the ride, Disney engineers visited Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, England to examine the Captive Flying Machines, a similar, but much larger, ride designed by Sir

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, and which has operated there since 1904. The ride cannot operate at constant wind speeds over , or gusts over . Neither this attraction, nor

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were removed or changed as part of the billion-dollar expansion.

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